Person Specification

Education and Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified Education Mental Health Practitioner or CYP Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Or / Mental Health Nurse, Occupational Therapist, Social Worker with additional CBT or other relevant therapy post graduate qualification

Previous Experience

Essential

• Experience of working with children and young people, their families and others in a healthcare or school setting.
• Experience of working with children and young people who have social, emotional and/or behavioural difficulties
• Experience of working with anxiety disorders
• Experience of working with affective disorders
• Experience of the delivery of specific low-intensity therapeutic interventions to children, young people or their families (e.g. CBT, solution-focused brief therapy)
• Ability to conduct other group therapeutic interventions with children and their families

Desirable

• Experience of monitoring and recording outcome measures for children’s emotional well-being
• Experience of navigating complex social systems and environments, who may have conflicting priorities or agendas
• Experience of working with vulnerable groups of children and young people for example, looked after children, neurodiverse children, children with speech language and communication needs, children who speak English as a second language

Skills/Competencies

Essential

• Ability to work within educational settings to increase mental health awareness among the staff group
• Ability to make an assessment of risk and to record and communicate it appropriately.

Desirable

• Ability to teach others about mental health issues

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of educational environments
• Knowledge of safeguarding issues

Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics

Essential

• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Desirable

• Proven commitment to continuous professional development.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Closing Date: 27 April 2026